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Sun Studio 12: Debugging a Program With dbx

Using dbx to Locate Problems

Use dbx to find the source code line where a segmentation fault has occurred.

Use a program to generate a segmentation fault:


demo% cat WhereSEGV.f
    INTEGER a(5)
    j = 2000000
    DO 9 i = 1,5
        a(j) = (i * 10)
9    CONTINUE
    PRINT *, a
    END
demo%

Use dbx to find the line number of a dbx segmentation fault:


demo% f95 -g -silent WhereSEGV.f
demo% a.out
Segmentation fault
demo% dbx a.out
Reading symbolic information for a.out
program terminated by signal SEGV (segmentation violation)
(dbx) run
Running: a.out
signal SEGV (no mapping at the fault address)
    in MAIN at line 4 in file "WhereSEGV.f"
    4                   a(j) = (i * 10)
(dbx)